Category: Development

We have been returning to Tysons Tower each month to show the progress occurring on the multi-phase, multi-use, multi-tower project. Each morning nearly 100 construction workers funnel into the massive pit along Route 123 to continue work on the foundations and substructure of the two new towers and the pedestrian plaza platform. It was unclear […]

Commuters have long been awaiting the new Mega-Project 495 Express Lanes completion since the merits of the project were first announced in 2004. If you have been living under a local news rock over the past decade, essentially the new lanes are a congestion pricing system that based on the amount of traffic at any […]

In our previous analysis of beneficial planning aspects in College Towns we noted the retention of a Mainstreet with a sense of place and proximity land use where transportation demands are reduced by locating buildings with altering uses close enough for residents to primarily walk. Blacksburg’s implementation of better land use allows a shuffle of […]

The significant victory for Obama, the Senate, and even the whittling away of the house should serve notice to those that would obstruct the will of the People for political gain. It should serve notice to those who would use scapegoating and avoid fact checkers. It should serve notice to those who yell about polarization […]

Our nation’s 18 month saga of terrible advertisement and idiotic pontificating is nearly over, Election Day is here! We made it out to the Jones Branch polling station at 5:45 this morning to watch the sunrise with some fellow patriots. The 15-minute head start was crucial. The entire process lasted about 10 minutes after the […]

It has been a few years since I returned to my alma mater, Virginia Tech, where every year it seems a new development or campus building pops up. Over 50,000 people shuffle in and out of the campus and town every day, more so on game days. That is equivalent to the number of people […]

When the new Tysons Comprehensive Plan was approved over two years ago, no one believed it would take this long for the County to begin allowing construction. In many of the earliest applications, the projects had been in the works for the better part of a decade, working hand in hand during the comprehensive plan […]

If you live or work in McLean just outside of the glass towers of Tysons you may have noticed a new mid-rise building under construction on Beverly Drive. The new building sits across the street from a mixed use high-rise, which gave me hope as a big fan of the new McLean revitalization concepts that […]

If you have had to visit the Kaiser building and had trouble finding it, you aren’t alone. I have a good vantage point on the confusion every morning and afternoon and see every five minutes a new visitor, eyes down on an undetailed GPS map, slowing down to a crawl in the right lane, and […]